Steam vs. Electricity

Which is faster—the steam or electric locomotive? On the face of the
latest returns, the "juice" seems to have it. At Erie, Pa.,
last week a speed of 105 miles an hour was attained over a short test
track by a locomotive built by the General Electric Co. and the
American Locomotive Works for the Paris-Orleans Railroad, France. This
is the greatest speed ever attained by an electric locomotive, and
could just as well have been 125 miles an hour, said officials, if the
track had been...